Photo: Makhbuls project at Sanctuary, GOMA. Courtesy of Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.

Although the judges have announced the finalists for this year’s Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year, we can now reveal the institution you think should win.

Our readers poll votes have been counted and in first place is Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) with almost a quarter of the vote.

Left out of the final four by the judges but recognised by 24 Hour Museum readers for their impressive project Sanctuary – Contemporary Art and Human Rights, a spokesperson for GoMA said: "We are delighted to have been chosen by the readers of the 24 Hour Museum and we would like to thank them for their support. We were thrilled with the quality of work at the Sanctuary exhibition and the success of the project."

A combination of exhibitions and outreach work with asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow, Sanctuary was developed in partnership with Amnesty International and the Scottish Refugee Council.

The main exhibition featured work by some of the biggest names in art alongside work by asylum seeker and refugee artists and attracted more than 200,000 visitors.

The 15-month outreach project involved 16 artists working with over 1000 participants at workshops in community centres across Glasgow and in the education studio at GoMA. Work from these outreach projects was exhibited at the gallery as well as The Glasgow Film Theatre café and local community venues.

Photo: a very happy eMo at Thinktank, Birmingham's museum of science and discovery. Courtesy of Thinktank.

Thinktank took second place in our poll with 16% of the vote.

Giving visitors a glimpse of what the future might look like, Birmingham's museum of science and discovery was shortlisted for the cutting edge exhibits in its Futures Gallery but, like GoMA, failed to make it to the judges' final four.

In third place was one of this year's Gulbenkian finalists, Newcastle’s Museum of Antiquities for its project Reticulum.

The idea behind Reticulum was to teach Northumberland children about the area's Roman and Iron Age past. Partnering the principle museum of archaeology in the northeast with local first schools, it went well beyond its remit and has, according to Director of Archaeological Museums Lindsay Allason-Jones, ended up changing the way teachers across Britain teach history.

Photo: Roman soldier by children from Newsham First School, Blyth, Northumberland for Reticulum. Courtesy of Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle.

Our poll has now closed but the Gulbenkian Prize is still up for grabs. Sadly only one of our readers poll top three has made it to the final four.

Jon Pratty, Editor of the 24 Hour Museum, said: "The 24 Hour Museum readers have always got their own informed opinions about things like this and I am glad they came up with their own choice."

As well as the Museum of Antiquities the official finalists are the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Pembrokeshire Museum Service and Norton Priory Museum.

The winner will be announced during Museums and Galleries month on May 11. To keep up to date with developments or to find out more about the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year, click on this link.